Nice is a new programming language. It extends the ideas behind object-orientation in order to better support modular programming and static type safety. It also incorporates features from functional programming, and puts into practice state-of-the-art results from academic research. This results in more expressivity, modularity and safety.

Safety

• Nice detects more errors during compilation than existing object-oriented languages (null pointer accesses, casts exceptions). This means that programs written in Nice never throw the infamous NullPointerException nor ClassCastException. This aspect is developed in more details in this article. 

Modularity

• In object-oriented languages, it is possible to add a new class to an existing class hierarchy. In Nice, it is also possible to add methods to existing classes without modifying their source file. This is a special case of multi-methods. 

Expressivity

• Many repetitive programming tasks can be avoided by using Nice's advanced features. Ever got bored of writing tons of loops, casts, overloaded methods with default values, anonymous classes.

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